Ashton, Iowa — A rural Ashton family is publicly thanking a UPS driver who alerted them to a fire.
Matt Dorr of rural Ashton says the UPS driver was dropping off a package and saw smoke rising from a shed.
Dorr says he ran to get a water tank and his wife started dragging the garden hose toward the shed to fight the fire when UPS driver Daniel Groen grabbed it.
Groen was covering the delivery route for another driver and it was the first time he’d been on the property. The Dorrs are renters and someone else owns the shed. Dorr says the fire was started by someone burning a brush pile in the backyard of the property when the wind picked up and blew the fire up the side of the shed.
